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The purpose of this post is to combine two brilliant guides and save them (and the files) from disappearing…and to have them in one place in case I have to redo all this. So the first guide is by Christoph Buenger and can be found here. It describes step by step the basic installation process for motion (And Raspian, which I’ll left out here).

The second guide is by some unknown author I’ve found here and is based on a guide by Jeremy which can be found here. I didn’t use Jeremy’s guide because I had problems with motion in Arch Linux. This guide describes the google drive part. So after having installed Raspian and wi-fi we continue with motion:

sudo apt-get install motion

Since there have still been problems with motion and my RasPi Cam Module I had do continue with Christophs alternative Motion version by doing this:

With that done you have downloaded and unpacked the alternative version of motion and updated the already installed one with those new files (There will be an alternative download location for all files in this guide compilation at the end).

Now we make the motion deamon run always by running this:

sudo nano /etc/default/motion

and changing the config line to this:

start_motion_daemon=yes

The motion configuration file for this modified version can be found here:

sudo nano /etc/motion.conf

An config example will also be attached to the archive at the end if it’s not available from here. According to this and the included file location, set the permissions like this: